Instincts And Impostors

Author : Meghan Ciana Doidge
Publisher : Old Man in the CrossWalk
ISBN 13 : 1989571611
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instincts and Impostors (Amplifier 5) written by Meghan Ciana Doidge and published by Old Man in the CrossWalk. This book was released on 2022-09-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’d led a deadly squad of genetically enhanced, uber-powerful magic wielders through life-threatening missions multiple times in the first twenty-one years of my life. When marked for death, I’d led the escape from those who’d bred us, controlled us. Utterly annihilating the Collective’s compound, and destroying everything that had gone into creating us — the Five. I found Christopher and Paisley a home, a safe haven. Then, despite being bred and raised to be a sociopath, I learned to love. And even some of the nuances of the act of loving. To protect the life I’d built, I’d faced off against black witches. Survived demons. Held powerful dark sorcerers at bay. I had thwarted an immortal entity. And despite all that, I was nervous. About attending a coven retreat. About revealing any part of myself to witches of the light. Witches who could hurt me without a lick of magic or a single sharp blade. Just by denying Opal the future she wanted. Because of me. And everything I could no longer hide. Or hide from. Instincts and Impostors is the fifth book in the Amplifier Series, which is set in the same universe as the Dowser, Oracle, Reconstructionist, Archivist, and Misfits of the Adept Universe series. Reading Order · The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0) · Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5) (bundled with A0) · Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1) · Bonds and Broken Dreams (Amplifier 2) · Mystics and Mental Blocks (Amplifier 3) · Idols and Enemies (Amplifier 4) · The Music Box (Amplifier 4.5) (bundled with A4) · Instincts and Impostors (Amplifier 5) · Recon Mission: Bee (Amplifier 5.5)

Author : Meghan Ciana Doidge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781989571507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instincts and Impostors written by Meghan Ciana Doidge and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'd led a deadly squad of genetically enhanced, uber-powerful magic wielders through life-threatening missions multiple times in the first twenty-one years of my life. When marked for death, I'd led the escape from those who'd bred us, controlled us. Utterly annihilating the Collective's compound, and destroying everything that had gone into creating us ? the Five. I found Christopher and Paisley a home, a safe haven. Then, despite being bred and raised to be a sociopath, I learned to love. And even some of the nuances of the act of loving. To protect the life I'd built, I'd faced off against black witches. Survived demons. Held powerful dark sorcerers at bay. I had thwarted an immortal entity. And despite all that, I was nervous. About attending a coven retreat. About revealing any part of myself to witches of the light. Witches who could hurt me without a lick of magic or a single sharp blade. Just by denying Opal the future she wanted. Because of me. And everything I could no longer hide. Or hide from. Instincts and Impostors is the fifth book in the Amplifier Series, which is set in the same universe as the Dowser, Oracle, Reconstructionist, Archivist, and Misfits of the Adept Universe series. Reading Order The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0) Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5) (bundled with A0) Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1) Bonds and Broken Dreams (Amplifier 2) Mystics and Mental Blocks (Amplifier 3) Idols and Enemies (Amplifier 4) The Music Box (Amplifier 4.5) (bundled with A4) Instincts and Impostors (Amplifier 5) Recon Mission: Bee (Amplifier 5.5).

Author : Steve Benen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063026503
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impostors written by Steve Benen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER, updated with a new afterword “This is the definitive account of what has gone wrong in our two-party system, and how our democracy has to adapt to survive it. I can't say it in strong enough terms: Read. This. Book.” —RACHEL MADDOW The award-winning producer of The Rachel Maddow Show exposes the Republican Party as a gang of impostors, meticulously documenting how they have abandoned their duty to govern and are gravely endangering America For decades, American voters innocently assumed the two major political parties were equally mature and responsible governing entities, ideological differences aside. That belief is due for an overhaul: in recent years, the Republican Party has undergone an astonishing metamorphosis, one so baffling and complete that few have fully reckoned with the reality and its consequences. Republicans, simply put, have quit governing. As MSNBC's Steve Benen charts in his groundbreaking new book, the contemporary GOP has become a "post-policy party." Republicans are effectively impostors, presenting themselves as officials who are ready to take seriously the substance of problem solving, but whose sole focus is the pursuit and maintenance of power. Astonishingly, they are winning–at the cost of pushing the political system to the breaking point. Despite having billed itself as the "party of ideas," the Republican Party has walked away from the hard but necessary work of policymaking. It is disdainful of expertise and hostile toward evidence and arithmetic. It is tethered to few, if any, meaningful policy preferences. It does not know, and does not care, about how competing proposals should be crafted, scrutinized, or implemented. This policy nihilism dominated the party's posture throughout Barack Obama's presidency, which in turn opened the door to Donald Trump -- who would cement the GOP's post-policy status in ways that were difficult to even imagine a few years earlier. The implications of this approach to governance are all-encompassing. Voters routinely elect Republicans such as Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz to powerful offices, expecting GOP policymakers to have the technocratic wherewithal to identify problems, weigh alternative solutions, forge coalitions, accept compromises, and apply some level of governmental competence, if not expertise. The party has consistently proven those hopes misguided. The result is an untenable political model that's undermining the American policymaking process and failing to serve the public's interests. The vital challenge facing the civil polity is coming to terms with the party's collapse as a governing entity and considering what the party can do to find its policymaking footing anew. The Impostors serves as a devastating indictment of the GOP's breakdown, identifying the culprits, the crisis, and its effects, while challenging Republicans with an imperative question: Are they ready to change direction? As Benen writes, "A great deal is riding on their answer."

Author : Meghan Ciana Doidge
Publisher : Old Man in the CrossWalk
ISBN 13 : 1989571603
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Idols and Enemies (Amplifier 4) written by Meghan Ciana Doidge and published by Old Man in the CrossWalk. This book was released on with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I knew that opening the letter from the sorcerer Azar would have deadly consequences. So we had prepared. We’d planned. We knew we might have to defend ourselves, our freedom. And that I might finally get a chance to exact the revenge I kept telling myself I wasn’t interested in exacting. What we didn’t know was that we’d find ourselves hosting a dysfunctional family reunion — the kind where everyone tries to kill someone at least once over dinner. Sorcerers and witches. With me in the middle. Mediating. I could wipe a small city from the face of the earth. I could vanquish a horde of demons with only two shortswords. I could infiltrate a magically fortified compound without detection, stand against black witches, and defy even those capable of manipulating minds. What I couldn’t do was mediate a family squabble that stretched back decades, replete with kidnapping, magical coercion, and rape. Or I couldn’t mediate with words, at least. Thankfully, though, draining everyone of their magic was always an option. *** Author’s Note: Idols and Enemies is the fourth book in the Amplifier Series, which is set in the same universe as the Dowser, Oracle, Reconstructionist, Archivist, and Misfits of the Adept Universe series. It also includes the short story, The Music Box (Amplifier 4.5). Reading Order · The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0) · Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5) (bundled with A0) · Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1) · Bonds and Broken Dreams (Amplifier 2) · Mystics and Mental Blocks (Amplifier 3) · Idols and Enemies (Amplifier 4) · The Music Box (Amplifier 4.5) (bundled with A4) · Instincts and Impostors (Amplifier 5) · Recon Mission: Bee (Amplifier 5.5)

Author : Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689848080
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Among the Impostors written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate child escapes from hiding only to face new dangers in the New York Times–bestselling author’s near future YA adventure series. In a world where the Population Police wield terrifying power, Luke Garner is an illegal third child. After spending his entire life in hiding, he’s found a way to escape—by assuming the identity of a deceased child. But living among other people isn’t going at all how he imagined. Luke now attends Hendricks School for Boys, a windowless building with cruel classmates and oblivious teachers. He knows he has to blend in, but he lives in constant fear that his behavior will betray him. Then one day Luke discovers a door to the outside. He knows that beyond the walls of Hendricks lie the secrets he is desperate to uncover. What he doesn’t know is whom he can trust—and where the answers to his questions may lead him.

Author : Arthur Machen
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770488715
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations written by Arthur Machen and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the height of the “yellow nineties” and in the shadow of the Oscar Wilde trials, Arthur Machen’s The Three Impostors (1895) remains a relatively obscure text even as Machen receives increasing attention for his contributions to of supernatural horror, the weird, and even science fiction. Situating this generically uncertain, richly multi-layered text in transnational traditions of the short-story cycle, the print culture of the 1890s, and the colonial scientific and material cultures of the fin de siècle, this edition shows that Machen’s long-neglected text has a strong claim to our renewed attention today.

Author : Robert Crichton
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374715882
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Impostor written by Robert Crichton and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this forthright account of a remarkable fraud in Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Robert Crichton presents the man, his reasons, and his methods. A New York Times bestseller when it was originally published in 1959, and serving as the inspiration for the Tony Curtis film of the same name, this is the fascinating and disturbing story of America’s Great Impostor. The fantastic lives and careers of Ferdinand Waldo Demara make a fantastic irony of the platitude that truth is stranger than fiction. For with Ferdinand Demara, truth is fiction. Demara wanted to be a hero, to lead an epic life dedicated to the benefit of others, and to gain adulation for himself, and he did all those things by lying to others about who he was. During his storied career, Ferdinand Demara managed to “become” a Trappist monk; a doctor of psychology and Dean of the School of Philosophy at a small college in Pennsylvania; a law student, zoology graduate, cancer researcher and teacher at a junior college in Maine; a surgeon-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy (as medical officer on the destroyed Cayuga, he successfully performed major surgery); a brilliant assistant warden of a Texas prison; and a teacher and beloved idol of the children on a Maine island village.

Author : Jaclyn Friedman
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580054307
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What You Really Really Want written by Jaclyn Friedman and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-editor of Yes Means Yes gives young women the tools to decipher the modern world's confusing, hypersexualized, sometimes dangerous landscape so they can define their own sexual identity. In this empowering, accessible guide, Jaclyn Friedman-co-editor of Yes Means Yes-gives young women the tools to decipher the modern world's confusing, hypersexualized, sometimes dangerous landscape so they can define their own sexual identity. Friedman decries the hypocrisy and mixed messages of our culture (we're failures if we don't act sexy, but we're sluts if we actually pursue sex; we need to be protected from rapists lurking in bushes, but deserve "whatever we get" if we have a drink at a party and wear a skirt), and encourages readers to separate fear from fact, decode the damaging messages all around them, and discover a healthy personal sexuality.

Author : Sarah Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impostors written by Sarah Burton and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous Imposters written by Bram Stoker and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Famous Imposters (Pretenders & Hoaxes including Queen Elizabeth and many more revealed by Bram Stoker)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Famous Impostors is the fourth and final book of nonfiction by Bram Stoker, published in 1910. It is a book that deals with exposing various impostors and hoaxes. Table of Contents : Preface Pretenders Perkin Warbeck The Hidden King "Stefan Mali" The False Czar The False Dauphins Princess Olive Practitioners of Magic: Paracelsus Cagliostro Mesmer The Wandering Jew John Law Witchcraft and Clairvoyance: The Period Doctor Dee La Voisin Sir Edward Kelley Mother Damnable Matthew Hopkins Arthur Orton Women as men: The Motive for Disguise Hannah Snell. La Maupin. Mary East Hoaxes, Etc.: Two London Hoaxes The Cat Hoax The Military Review The Toll-Gate The Marriage Hoax Buried Treasure Dean Swift's Hoax Hoaxed Burglars Bogus Sausages The Moon Hoax The Chevalier D'eon The Bisley Boy Prolegomenon The Queen's Secret Bisley The Tradition The Difficulty of Proof The Time and the Opportunity The Identity of Elizabeth The Solution Index Abraham "Bram" Stoker ( 1847 – 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.